WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY?
Sustainability is a system
characteristic that reflects its
capacity to support natural laws and human values.
A PACE TOWARDS GREENWAYS
Sustainable Road ProjectThe Port River Expressway has proven to be one of the most environmentally complex and challenging road projects in South Australia’s history. Always we want a better road as they are important for a nation to meet the requirement of growing travel demand and to help the faster growth of economic activity. Some new challenges are arising day by day for road construction and maintenance as such will require a number of new approaches. Such challenges will result from a growing number of interconnected environmental, social, and economic factors, which are set to apply significant pressure on the future of roads. For instance, environmental pressures will include the impacts of climate change on rainfall patterns and temperature profiles; economic pressure will be affected by materials and resources shortages, along with predicted increases in energy and resource prices globally, and social pressures will include potential shifts to lighter vehicles, reduced use of cars due to higher fuel costs, and political pressure to respond to climate change. Roads are one of the greatest green house contributors, both directly, through fossil energy consumed in mining, transporting, earthworks and paving work, plus the emissions from road use by vehicles. To overcome these challenges we need sustainable roads or environment friendly roads. We can define Sustainability as development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. There are three spheres of sustainability: the economy, society and the environment. Sustainable Roads

Effectively and efficiently planned, designed, built, operated, upgraded and preserved roads by mean of integrated policies respecting the environment and still providing the expected...

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Dozen of years after the second millennium, people are witnessing a world with a high level of complexities, trans-boundary issues at a level of dysfunction that seem not to cease. Today, humankind is said to have a tendency to produce what they do not necessarily consume, and consume what they do not produce; as well as produce far more information than the capacity of any individuals to absorb (Mebratu 1998, UNEP 2012). The urges for changes throughout historical milestones and evolutions have led to a new, global concept ‘Sustainable Development’. Associating with the theory of ‘Three pillar’ addressing the fundamentally systematic aspects of humanity, sustainable development is identified as a solution for global transformation (R10). It is stated by Prugh & Assadourian (2003) that sustainable development is about “collective values and related choices, and therefore a political issues, almost certainly the supreme political issue of our century”, which requests us to delve deep in to understanding the notion of the term and its related ideas, particularly in political realm. ‘Political issue’ could be understood as a complicated situation or matter in relation with politics and often correlates to discourses, which facilitate evolutionary forces to rise from subduing (Flanagan, 1999). This paper attempts to define sustainable development;...

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Sustainable development is about human development where the use of natural resources aim to meet the needs of human beings while simultaneously ensuring that the environment is maintained. These needs must be met for present as well as for future generations. In other words, in order for human beings as well as the planet to survive, changes has to be made that will maintain the natural resources that is available. There is currently a trade-off between sustainability and economic growth due to an increase in globalisation. The demands of the global population far outweighs the available supply of natural resources thereby leading to mismanagement of resources e.g.: deforestation, air and water pollution, increase of slum dwellers etc.
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...Q. Sustainable Development?
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